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For the past number of months, my Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition game would start lagging in larger ranked team games.

I re-ran the benchmark test, and I ranked 971.2, which is too low for ranked team games (1000)! So that greatly concerned me, as this is the only game with serious requirements that I run. So I spent time investigating all the graphics settings, and rebooting and running only steam and AoE2DE.

The moment I reached out to a friend who plays way more games than me, my next change solved the problem. I had set my fps limit down to 15, in the hopes of increasing game performance. Come to find out, it limits network performance when you lower the fps, and it also lowers the benchmark performance.

So that test I had run, with 65 fps, ranked nice and high (1138.2) and then I am eligible to play ranked team games again!

Here is a chart, for the curious. (This is the first time I am using the charting features in my ssg, nikola!)

The system I tested has these characteristics.

• OS: Devuan GNU+Linux Ceres
• RAM: 64 GB
• Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti